Yet another computer question for the collective

[Scott Douglas]

My fan has been running a lot lately. Never used to do that when closer to being new.
I cleaned the fan and inside really well with the vacuum. I even ordered some new paste for the heat sink and put that on. The old paste wasn't in that bad a condition IMO, but I put on the new stuff just the same. I went so far as to download the Core Temp ap so I can monitor temps.
Today, while looking at BaT and a photo site I post on, the fan was running wild kind of. I'd see temps flashing orange in the ap window which I have running on part of the screen.
I went into Task manager and saw that Creative Cloud Desktop was sucking up a lot of CPU usage, so I killed it, or rather ended the task.
Now the fan has settled down.
Is someone using my computer without me knowing it or what?
I typically leave it on all day as it doesn't go to sleep and wake up very well without a reboot. I figure it doesn't use that much energy and I'm usually on it (I have a very comfortable chair, what can I say?).
Any advise would be helpful.
Is getting rid of Creative Cloud desktop possible?
TIA. Hope you all are having a nice day, we finally got some SUN today.

[John Rogers]

Check to see if anyone else is on your PC by using Windows Task Manager and one of the tabs should show users logged into your PC

Check your router to see who has logged into your network. It will show IP addresses and also the network on each connection such as a TV, Laptop, Smart phone and such.

Of course it could just be hot?????
John

[masraum]

Do you use Creative Cloud Desktop? How often?

Adobe loves to have their stuff run all of the time in the background. If you have your computer on for long periods of time (mine is on 24x7x365 and is rarely rebooted), then you may not want it to run in the background, especially if you rarely use it.

It's probably possible to set it up so it only runs when you need it instead of all of the time.

It's possible that it was someone or something nefarious, but my guess is that it was not. Keep CCD closed when you aren't using it.

MOST of the time when a computer starts running hot or the fan is running more it's some software running the CPU up, not dust, thermal paste, etc.... (But it certainly could be those things and it never hurts to check them.)

[Scott Douglas]

Thanks guys.
I went in and checked, no one here but me.
I disabled CCD from the start up menu so it won't be, or shouldn't be, starting when I reboot.
Since disabling it earlier I haven't heard the fan once.
I'm not even sure when I'd ever be using CCD as I don't like putting things in the cloud if I can knowingly help it. I don't keep, or put, any of my photos there if I can help it.

[stomachmonkey]

No one has hacked you or is using your PC remotely.

Sometimes processes simply get stuck.

Can happen if there was an OS update, specific application update, random
app update that shares resources like Java.

Just keep an eye on it, may never happen again.

This is almost always some normal everyday thing.

[Por_sha911]

If the concern is a virus, malware, or a program that is stuck:
Restart the computer and before you open anything hit Cntrl/Alt/Delete and go to task manager. Lot at what programs are running. You'll see a lot of stuff you don't recognize but are normal processes. Sort it by the amount of memory used and see what the top ones are. You can search online anything you see to find out if it is malicious.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

No one has hacked you or is using your PC remotely.

Sometimes processes simply get stuck.

Can happen if there was an OS update, specific application update, random
app update that shares resources like Java.

Just keep an eye on it, may never happen again.

This is almost always some normal everyday thing.

Exactly. 99.99% of the time it just happens. But there is occasionally the other 0.01%.

When it happens, do what you did, check task manager for something hogging your CPU.

[Scott Douglas]

So far, disabling Creative Cloud Desktop at the start up file seems to have done the job.

[zakthor]

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

So far, disabling Creative Cloud Desktop at the start up file seems to have done the job.

Interesting. I hope that was it.

Im a little skeptical that a background task should be doing so much compute but then again its adobe…

Is this a laptop?

Mine started running hotter year by year until it was thermal shutdown on warm days. Thermal paste didnt help. Turned out it was a broken heat pipe and now fans rarely sweat.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by Scott Douglas

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I'm not even sure when I'd ever be using CCD as I don't like putting things in the cloud if I can knowingly help it. I don't keep, or put, any of my photos there if I can help it.

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CCD manages your Adobe services, the licensing, app updates and version management among other things.

If you have not updated / reinstalled you should, it breaks now and again.

If you have multiple PC's it's actually kinda handy.

You get two activations per license, allowed to run on two machines.

If you have more than 2 machines you can install it and say it's active on device 1 and 2 but you need to use device 3 you can set #1 or 2 as inactive and activate device 3.